but do my dogs KNOW that I love them?

I don't know man I mostly forget about this website and periodically hop on to reblog whatever I find funny or obsess about a new Media Thing so don't expect any consistent content or fandom engagement I guess is what I'm trying to say

[saturatedsinset]

the everest climbing industry is a manifestation of neocolonialism and i know im not talking to anyone actually considering doing it bc we are all broke and on tumblr but like. by climbing everest as essentially a dick-measuring contest with God you are directly subjugating the sherpas who do all the hard work for starvation wages

[saturatedsinset]

this whole "showing dominance over nature" concept rears its head a lot, is talked about in reference to stuff like people making large impressive buildings, but it's also present in the everest industry. but what tourist everest climbers are actually doing is exploiting an underclass of workers in the global south

[analytically]

Can astrologers use astrological charts to understand people's character and lives? Our new study put astrologers to the test

Astrology is very popular — both Gallup and YouGov report that about 25% of Americans believe that the position of the stars and planets can

Astrology doesn't seem to work.

[intimate-mirror]

[performativezippers]

Some highlights:

Astrologers helped design the study

No one did better than random chance, even though they only included people in the study who are experienced with astrology and stated that they expect themselves to do better than random chance

They gave every astrologer a set of 50 things about a person and 5 birth charts to choose from. They weren’t even coming up with the chart themselves!

After taking the test, most thought they nailed it. Zero out of 152 did better than 5 out of 12. None nailed it

Astrologers who rated themselves highly experienced (“world class experts”) did the same or worse as those who said they have limited experience. Both performed the same as random chance

This is hilarious

[o-craven-canto]

That's got to be the funniest graph ever published in a paper

[vampmilf]

dont get me wrong, clowing on trump for trying to buy greenland is fun and all and we all love a good meme, but i think a lot of it also misses a major point

denmark countering the offer and saying they want to buy america instead, and essentially telling trump "fuck off, greenland will always belong to denmark" isnt that funny anymore when you remember that greenland, and its native people, have been colonised by several nordic countries and lastly denmark, and denmark saying it will "always be part of us" is continuing said colonisation. theres a long history of forcing natives from their homes and from their land, forced sterilisation for controlling the native population and instead fill the country with settlers, forcibly relocating children to denmark to raise them speaking a different language, follow a different religion, lose their own culture.

native greenlanders have been trying for years to gain complete independence from their colonisers so denmark can also fuck right off with their "greenland will always be ours" bullshit.

i just saw a video from a dutch politician joking about taking back new york and revive their old colony there under the name "new amsterdam", turning the trump tower into a red light district, etc etc and sure, thats a little funny, but again: a colony. sure, the dutch werent the biggest most famous offernders in north america but that doesnt mean they werent offenders at all. native americans suffered under them just as much, still had their land stolen from them by the dutch, had their children taken and their rights stripped away.

the dutch didnt only bring settlers with them, they also brought slaves, many of them, yet another group of people that was taken from their native lands and forced into labour in absolutely subhuman conditions. joking about reviving a colony isnt as funny as some people seem to think it is for the sake of a funny 60 second clip.

when you see videos or memes of people clowning on trump buying greenland, ask yourself who really is the butt of the joke here and remember that greenland will always belong to the greenlanders. hopefully we will see them gain independence from denmark in our lifetime.

[frabjuosity]

So uh two things about this.

The counteroffer to buy California was in no way affiliated with the Danish state. The dude who made the petition wasn't even Danish. As for the Danish state, their official statement on the matter is "Greenland is not for sale." Which is very different from "Greenland will always be ours", a thing they have never said. (Though individual Danes speaking on the issue may have)

In fact "Greenland will always be ours" would be a deeply strange statement for the Danish state to make, considering Greenland is about to have a referendum, fully sanctioned by the Danish state, to determine whether they want to become an independent nation. Although it's very important to acknowledge that Greenland became Danish territory as a result of violent and exploitative colonialism, whether or not it currently remains that way is a question that is already in the hands of the Greenlandic people.

[aevios]

Having ADHD is so fun because sometimes youre looking for something that you use regularly and definitely put away in a smart and reasonable place and you have absolutely 0 hope of remembering where and finding it. And then other times ur like "hmm I need a some kind of small pointed object. I feel like i remember seeing a paperclip under the left couch cushion a month ago, i wonder if its still there" and it is

[aevios]

"wait but if u saw the paperclip why would u just leave it there?" its the adhd. Also if i had put it away then i wouldnt have been able to find it a month later when i needed it. So. Checkmate neurotypicals.

[badassdemonsword-deactivated202]

Im a woman and a man at the same time. but thats not important. we have to save 10 baby turtles from drowning ebfore the timer runs out

[frabjuosity]

[cryptotheism]

hi yes hello what the fuck is metrosexual lmfao

It's hard to explain to zoomers just how insanely homophobic the early 2000s were. If you were male, and like, washed your hair regularly, people would call you a faggot.

So, dudes who washed their hair and wore button ups developed the term "metrosexual" which meant "I care about my appearance but I am attracted to women and don't have sex with men."

[cryptotheism]

And not just "oh people called you gay to be mean" like they literally thought you were homosexual and hiding it. Women would literally be like "damn, I was super attracted to him, but I heard he wore shorts more than twice in a week, so I guess he must like men."

[parkchanwoohoo]

A lot of people on Tik Tok have migrated over to the Chinese app RedNote, and the Chinese users are so fucking funny about it. I saw one comment that was like "Welcome, I was the Chinese citizen assigned to spy on your data, I missed you"

[yekkes]

Big fan of this, too

[nickyflowers]

i bet there were guys in the 1800s who were super fucking Reddit about everything, but no one had the right word yet for why those guys were so annoying. so they just had to wonder

[doctorbluesmanreturns]

Der lästige Kavalier (The Annoying Gentleman), by Berthold Woltze, 1874.

[disgruntled-foreign-patriarch]

that is a "hello darkness my old friend" face if I ever saw one.

[safetynot9uaranteed]

Cybersmith off his shits

[marzipanandminutiae]

keep in mind also that this girl is

A. A teenager, since her hair is almost fully down (the longer skirt and her traveling alone make me think maybe 14-15), and

B. In mourning, as evidenced by her entirely matte and unornamented black dress, gloves, and hat

so this guy is pestering a young girl who's just lost someone close to her, in absence of clear social cues meant to convey exactly that

[shinyhappygoth]

I recently saw it pointed out elseTumblr that, a remarkably easy detail to miss, she is going for her hatpin. The clear social cues are about to escalate.

[lyricwritesprose]

I for one think that is very valid of her and that hatpinning That Guy should still be considered a socially acceptable and perhaps even laudable option.

[bunniesandbeheadings]

For a dollar, can you name any battle that happened that was not Waterloo?

Yes!

No!

I’m a bald pacifist

Voting ended onJan 3, 2025

Any battle at all except Waterloo. Reblog if you can think of one!

[andhumanslovedstories]

look I'm not gonna pretend I know anything about electronics, but sometimes a plug is so big it blocks another socket, and I'm always like "who the fuck do you think you are"

[yr-tiktok-mom]

[syrnyj]

[summer-fruits-and-cream]

[fishandshesmygills]

they should invent an understanding and intellectualizing your feelings that makes them go away!!!

[donthitanybody]

Tomska going hard on Twitter again.

[menlove-archive]

you ever have situations that make you want to take people by the shoulders and go "you are not 15 any longer. this behavior is no longer quirky and cute. it is exhausting for you and everyone else to act like a teenager you haven't been in a decade or longer. knock it the fuck off"

[menlove-archive]

way too many ppl in the notes proud to be this person...... girl trust me We Know this is you!

[vro0m]

In other news I'm officially retiring from joking about French people they have too much on their plate already what with the fascism

[cipheramnesia]

I think we might all have to collectively set nationalist joking on the high shelf til we figure out if anyone is making it through the whole worldwide fascism uptick tbh.

[smute]

[cringepics]

stop buying tat. and by tat i mean cheap / shoddy / tasteless / tacky plastic shite. just stop buying it. listen. i'm all for a deal. but think of planet earth. stop buying plastic planters shaped like glup shitto. no more funko pops. you get the deal. but cringepics, you say. it's a birthday or a holiday season and my friends and family love tacky plastic fandom shit. please get them literally anything else. think of the planet. i live in australia and this country lights itself on fire more often than ever before historically and i'm not going to fry to a fucking crisp because you "needed" a hazbin hotel themed garden gnome. buy local. re-use. think sustainable. everyone wants to eat the rich and no one wants to stop lining their pockets

[time-to-leave-machine]

people will say "why cant the eldritch gods just be nice to humans :((" and then kill a bug for existing near them

[time-to-leave-machine]

my dearly beloved mutual you cant just leave this in the tags

[aethersquid]

While exploring a vast and inscrutable city which seems to predate life on earth I am gently picked up by something incomprehensible with the higher-dimensional equivalent of a cup and piece of paper, then lovingly set outside in my natural habitat. Unfortunately the being exists outside of time and can't really tell human cities apart from one another so I appear without warning in ancient sumer.